Verena Cmentowski
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Postdoc @Carter Lab @MRC_LMB. Alumnus of the Musacchio Lab @MPI Dortmund
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Verena Cmentowski
Hellerschmied Lab
6 days ago
Excellent talk by our
@unidue-zmb.bsky.social
colleague Pinki Galhot from
@hemmo-lab.bsky.social
@imprs-lm.bsky.social
👏
#MK2026
@gbmev.bsky.social
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Verena Cmentowski
GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie)
6 days ago
The 2026 Otto Warburg Medal winner Maya Schuldiner received the medal from
@volkerhaucke-lab.bsky.social
after a moving laudatio by Christian Ungermann Thanks to
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social
for the continuous support!
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Verena Cmentowski
CRC 1430
6 days ago
Big congrats to our SFB alumna
@vcmentowski.bsky.social
on receiving the Bayer Pharmaceuticals PhD Award! Her work (previously also conducted in
@andrea-musacchio.bsky.social
's lab) reveals how CENP-E orchestrates kinetochore corona assembly and links it to mitotic checkpoint signaling. 🎉
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Verena Cmentowski
Hellerschmied Lab
7 days ago
Congratulations
@vcmentowski.bsky.social
! Well-deserved award for an excellent PhD work performed in the
@andrea-musacchio.bsky.social
lab.
@imprs-lm.bsky.social
@crc1430.bsky.social
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Honored to receive the Bayer Pharmaceuticals PhD Award of the
@gbmev.bsky.social
at this year’s Mosbach Symposium an inspiring meeting with great science and discussions. Very grateful to my PhD supervisor
@andrea-musacchio.bsky.social
for his excellent mentorship and support throughout the journey.
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Verena Cmentowski
Max Haase
about 1 month ago
Our paper is now out in Nature: “Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A short thread on how retrotransposons helped give rise to yeast point centromeres. 1/14
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Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres - Nature
Evolutionarily related ‘proto-point’ centromeres providing resolution to the evolutionary origins of point centromeres are identified in yeast, and comparison shows they evolved in an ancestor with re...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10092-0
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Excited to share our new paper! 🎉 The BUB1 and BUBR1 paralogs scaffold the kinetochore fibrous corona
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Very thankful to
@andrea-musacchio.bsky.social
for his mentorship and support over the years.
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The BUB1 and BUBR1 paralogs scaffold the kinetochore fibrous corona
The kinetochore fibrous corona docks on CENP-E and a second elusive receptor identified as the checkpoint protein BUB1.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady6890
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Verena Cmentowski
Hellerschmied Lab
9 months ago
Very happy to see our contribution to a better understanding of Hsp70/90
#chaperones
online! Congrats and a big thank you to all co-authors, collaborators and reviewers!
#proteostasis
@poepsel-lab.bsky.social
@crc1430.bsky.social
@unidue-zmb.bsky.social
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Verena Cmentowski
DivIDE conference
9 months ago
Join us from Sept 22-25, 2025, to hear from:
@marstonlab.bsky.social
Anna Akhmanova
@annestraube.bsky.social
@andrea-musacchio.bsky.social
Christopher Campbell
@renemedema.bsky.social
@mcclellandlab.bsky.social
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Verena Cmentowski
DivIDE conference
9 months ago
Last chance to register for the 3rd DivIDE conference in sunny Barcelona
@crg.eu
! 🚨With 20+ selected talks and travel grants for three outstanding junior scientists a great opportunity for young researchers! 🔗 Learn more & register: www.divide-conference.com 📅 Registration Deadline: July 13, 2025
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Verena Cmentowski
Andrea Musacchio
9 months ago
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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M18BP1 valency and a distributed interaction footprint determine epigenetic centromere specification in humans
Deposition of CENP-A, the histone H3 variant considered an epigenetic landmark of centromeres, reflects cell-cycle-regulated assembly of M18BP1, HJURP, and PLK1 on a divalent MIS18α/β scaffold. The lo...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.27.661933v1
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Verena Cmentowski
DivIDE conference
about 1 year ago
🚀 Registration is officially OPEN! 🚀 Join us for the 3rd DivIDE Conference from 22–25 September 2025 in sunny Barcelona ☀️. An inspiring line-up of speakers awaits — reserve your spot and help spread the word! Follow the link for early bird registration:
forms.creacongresos.com/DivIDE/
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Verena Cmentowski
Surrey Lab
11 months ago
🚀 Ready for inspiring talks, sunshine, and great company in Barcelona from 22–25 September 2025? Don’t miss your chance to be part of it! Sign up here:
forms.creacongresos.com/DivIDE/
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Curious about how cells divide? 🚨Join us in Barcelona for the 3rd DivIDE Conference!🚨
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about 1 year ago
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Verena Cmentowski
DivIDE conference
over 1 year ago
We are delighted to announce that the 3rd DivIDE Conference will take place from 22–25 September 2025 with a fantastic lineup of speakers. Registration opens soon - stay tuned and help us spread the word! We are looking forward to meet many of you in Barcelona! ☀️
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Verena Cmentowski
Andrea Musacchio
over 1 year ago
I gladly bring this meeting to your attention so that you can mark dates in your calendar in case your are interest. Additional information will follow. Please circulate if possible.
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